WORLDBUILD WITH ME
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU - 2022
Worldbuild With Me at Comfort Station - Juneteenth 2022
Date: June 2020
Duration: 11 minutes 38 seconds
Medium: Video (color, sound)
Display and Exhibition History:
2020 - A Night of Art and Disco: Art Showcase and Digital Disco, Chicago IL. USA
2022 - Juneteenth: Black Queer Futures, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL. USA
“WORLDBUILD WITH ME is Gardner’s entry into video collage, expressing a curatorial approach to gathering and arranging movement, sounds, textures, and images that articulate his interest in unrefined joy. Gardner began working on WORLDBUILD WITH ME in hopes of submitting the work to a dance music festival, but it took a different shape after the uprisings and protests began in June 2020. Drawing among everything from Blaxploitation movies to iconic clips from balls, Gardner has assembled found footage and self-shot video in order to build an Afrofuturist invitation into his world.” - Ella Ray
See below for additional images of this piece on display.
*header image featuring Mackenzi Bell-Nugent*
Worldbuild With Me at A Night of Art and Disco, Promotional Videos by Austin Gardner, July 2020
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, 2022
Worldbuild With Me at Comfort Station Logan Square, Juneteenth 2022
Worldbuild With Me at Comfort Station Logan Square, Juneteenth 2022
Worldbuild With Me at Comfort Station Logan Square, Juneteenth 2022
Worldbuild With Me at Comfort Station Logan Square, Juneteenth 2022
Black Queer Futures: A Junteenth Celebration Flyer
Worlbuild With Me Live Screening at Comfort Station Flyer